Adnan Rubai

Playing Nim on Simplicial Complexes

Abstract for the Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar
2001 February 13

One of the classical games - perhaps the classical game - in mathematics is the game of Nim. We will discuss a generalization of Nim by placing the piles on the vertices of a simplicial complex. Under certain conditions on the complex, we discuss the winning strategy. We leave with an open problem.